The Resource Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women, Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander
Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women, Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander
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The item Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women, Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Arapahoe Library District.
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- Summary
- "Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction. On her own, she eventually found a private drug rehabilitation facility. Once clean, Susan dedicated her life to supporting women facing similar struggles. Her organization, A New Way of Life, operates five safe homes in Los Angeles that supply a lifeline to hundreds of formerly incarcerated women and their children--setting them on the track to education and employment rather than returns to prison. Becoming Ms. Burton not only humanizes the deleterious impact of mass incarceration, it also points the way to the kind of structural and policy changes that will offer formerly incarcerated people the possibility of a life of meaning and dignity
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxiii, 304 pages
- Contents
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- Foreword / Michelle Alexander
- Part I: Sue
- Now what?
- Land of opportunity
- Daddy's girl
- Hit the road
- The sacrifice
- Things you don't talk about
- The life
- From the skillet to the frying pan
- No justice, no peace
- A new drug
- Incarceration nation
- Collateral damage
- The revolving door
- The vicious cycle
- Hurt people
- A tale of two systems
- A way out
- Finding purpose
- Part II: Ms. Burton
- A new way of life
- The wall of no
- Who's profiting from our pain?
- Women and prison
- A kindred spirit
- Taking food off the table
- Broke leg house
- From trash to treasure
- All of us or none
- Treating the symptoms and the disease
- The meaning of life
- The women from Orange County
- Being beholden
- Living an impossible life
- The house that discrimination built
- Women organizing for justice and opportunity
- What would Ms. Sybil Brand think?
- Without representation
- Prop 47
- The movement
- The arc bends toward justice
- Isbn
- 9781620972120
- Label
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Title
- Becoming Ms. Burton
- Title remainder
- from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- Statement of responsibility
- Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander
- Title variation
- Becoming Miss Burton
- Subject
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- Abused women -- United States -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Personal transformation
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Activists and reformers
- trueFormer drug addicts
- Burton, Susan
- trueWomen former convicts
- trueWomen social reformers
- trueWomen prisoners -- United States -- Biography
- trueRehabilitation
- Women ex-convicts -- United States -- Biography
- truePrison reform
- African American women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
- Women drug addicts -- United States -- Biography
- trueSociety and culture -- Violence and crime | Criminal justice system
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction. On her own, she eventually found a private drug rehabilitation facility. Once clean, Susan dedicated her life to supporting women facing similar struggles. Her organization, A New Way of Life, operates five safe homes in Los Angeles that supply a lifeline to hundreds of formerly incarcerated women and their children--setting them on the track to education and employment rather than returns to prison. Becoming Ms. Burton not only humanizes the deleterious impact of mass incarceration, it also points the way to the kind of structural and policy changes that will offer formerly incarcerated people the possibility of a life of meaning and dignity
- Summary
- A South Los Angeles woman who self-medicated with drugs after her son’s death and was in and out of prison for 15 years describes her struggle to get clean and how she became an advocate and supporter of women facing similar situations
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10563792
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- Dewey number
- 303
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/writerofforeword
- mUazvV1fKjY
- Label
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women, Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Foreword / Michelle Alexander -- Part I: Sue -- Now what? -- Land of opportunity -- Daddy's girl -- Hit the road -- The sacrifice -- Things you don't talk about -- The life -- From the skillet to the frying pan -- No justice, no peace -- A new drug -- Incarceration nation -- Collateral damage -- The revolving door -- The vicious cycle -- Hurt people -- A tale of two systems -- A way out -- Finding purpose -- Part II: Ms. Burton -- A new way of life -- The wall of no -- Who's profiting from our pain? -- Women and prison -- A kindred spirit -- Taking food off the table -- Broke leg house -- From trash to treasure -- All of us or none -- Treating the symptoms and the disease -- The meaning of life -- The women from Orange County -- Being beholden -- Living an impossible life -- The house that discrimination built -- Women organizing for justice and opportunity -- What would Ms. Sybil Brand think? -- Without representation -- Prop 47 -- The movement -- The arc bends toward justice
- Control code
- 954670513
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xxiii, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620972120
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)954670513
- Label
- Becoming Ms. Burton : from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women, Susan Burton and Cari Lynn ; with a foreword by Michelle Alexander
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Foreword / Michelle Alexander -- Part I: Sue -- Now what? -- Land of opportunity -- Daddy's girl -- Hit the road -- The sacrifice -- Things you don't talk about -- The life -- From the skillet to the frying pan -- No justice, no peace -- A new drug -- Incarceration nation -- Collateral damage -- The revolving door -- The vicious cycle -- Hurt people -- A tale of two systems -- A way out -- Finding purpose -- Part II: Ms. Burton -- A new way of life -- The wall of no -- Who's profiting from our pain? -- Women and prison -- A kindred spirit -- Taking food off the table -- Broke leg house -- From trash to treasure -- All of us or none -- Treating the symptoms and the disease -- The meaning of life -- The women from Orange County -- Being beholden -- Living an impossible life -- The house that discrimination built -- Women organizing for justice and opportunity -- What would Ms. Sybil Brand think? -- Without representation -- Prop 47 -- The movement -- The arc bends toward justice
- Control code
- 954670513
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xxiii, 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620972120
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)954670513
Subject
- Abused women -- United States -- Biography
- African American women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Burton, Susan
- trueFormer drug addicts
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Personal transformation
- trueLife stories -- Politics | Activists and reformers
- truePrison reform
- trueRehabilitation
- trueSociety and culture -- Violence and crime | Criminal justice system
- Women drug addicts -- United States -- Biography
- Women ex-convicts -- United States -- Biography
- trueWomen former convicts
- trueWomen prisoners -- United States -- Biography
- trueWomen social reformers
Genre
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBiography
- trueLife stories
- trueSociety and culture
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